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Affirmative action / Leora Maltz, book editor.

Maltz-Leca, Leora, (editor.).

Summary:

Provides essays with divergent viewpoints on affirmative action policies in United States colleges and universities.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780737720020
  • ISBN: 0737720026
  • ISBN: 9780737720013
  • ISBN: 0737720018
  • Physical Description: 77 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Detroit, MI : Greenhaven, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1 Affirmative Action: An Overview / David C. Slade 9 -- 2 Affirmative Action Helps Minorities / Charles J. Ogletree Jr. 12 -- 3 Affirmative Action Harms Minorities / Clarence Thomas 15 -- 4 Affirmative Action Encourages Diversity / Commonweal 21 -- 5 Diversity Should Not Be Legislated by Affirmative Action / Peter H. Schuck 24 -- 6 Affirmative Action Hurts White People / Anne Hull 31 -- 7 Claim That Affirmative Action Hurts White People Is a Myth / Goodwin Liu 36 -- 8 Affirmative Action Is Necessary in Higher Education / Patricia Gurin et al. 41 -- 9 Affirmative Action Has No Place in Higher Education / Richard F. Tomasson 50 -- 10 Affirmative Action Policies Should Consider Class, Not Race / Richard D. Kahlenberg 56 -- 11 Affirmative Action Policies Must Consider Race / Glenn C. Loury 59 -- 12 Affirmative Action Benefits American Society / Carol Moseley Braun 63 -- 13 Affirmative Action Is Constitutional / Jamin B. Raskin 65.
Target Audience Note:
9-A.
Subject: Discrimination in education.
Universities and colleges > United States > Entrance requirements.
Affirmative action programs.

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